The Model T made its debut in 1908 with a purchase price of $825.00. Over ten thousand were sold in its first year, establishing a new record. Four years later the price dropped to $575.00 and sales soared. By 1914, Ford could claim a 48% share of the automobile market.
Statesville Haunted Prison has been widely considered one of Illinois' best haunted houses for almost 20 years.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. â The only survivor of an abortive escape attempt from Alcatraz in 1946 has died at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners here. Clarence Carnes, known as the Choctaw Kid and the youngest man ever admitted to The Rock, died Oct. 3 at the age of 61 after spending most of his life in prisons. Carnes was 18 when sent to the island prison in San Francisco Bay in 1945. Early the next year, he was drawn into a daring escape plot that quickly went awry.